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FEARS SPEECH CURB IN SEDITION BILL; Johnson of California Insists That Measure as it Stands Bars Honest Criticism. JOHN L.O'BRIAN UPHOLDS IT Lawyer Declares It Is Aimed at the Most Subtle and Dangerous of German Propaganda. O'Brian Defends the Bill. Bible in Propaganda.

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April 25, 1918,

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WASHINGTON, April 24.--Senator Johnson of California in the Senate today took the House and Senate conferees on the Sedition bill to task for having eliminated an amendment to exempt from its provisions any individuals...

April 25, 1918

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